Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings.

There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists.

We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.

Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.